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Right there, legendary rock and roll artist.
[G] Todd Rundgren will be here live to talk about his [D] remarkable career, his latest project,
and the reason he's in Cleveland.
Don't go away.
[C] [Gm] Hello, [F] it's me.
[Gm] [F]
[Eb] Great song, [G] Todd is cringing upon hearing it.
We'll explain why shortly.
Welcome back everybody to Deucerderade's Good Day at Midday.
During a 30 year musical career, Todd Rundgren has had many roles as a performer, producer
from the 60's as leader of Naz to producing albums for groups like Holland Oats and Meatloaf
and Cheap Trick and many others.
Quite a talented man.
But Todd Rundgren is probably [A] best known for hits like I Saw the Light and Hello, It's Me.
[G] Throughout his career he's also been known as an innovator and he is at it again and
he is with us this afternoon and we're so happy to have him.
Thanks Todd for [N] being here, we do appreciate it.
No problem.
A lot of people don't know that Hello, It's Me was your first song that you ever even
wrote and it went that far.
Yeah, it's very strange.
Unfortunate situation since people seem to think of you and that's kind of what now is
about 30 year old space and of course whoever it was that I wrote the song about I've completely forgotten.
People still want to hear it but I make no guarantees about what I play during the shows.
Yeah, well you still, you got a lot of hits, you got to start somewhere and you started
with a hit and that is something else.
Tell us about CD Plus.
Yeah, this is big, this is hot and this is brand new from this guy, The Individualist.
That'll be my next CD but it's not just a regular CD, it's a CD Plus which is a new
format that Philips and Sony came up with that allows you to put computer data in the
extra space on the disc and you can put it into a regular CD player and you don't have
to do anything special, it's just like a regular CD but if you put it into a computer
with a CD-ROM drive then the computer will recognize the extra data and you can have
graphical presentations, a lot of people have biographical stuff.
Me I tend to lean towards the more expressive area rather than the biographical area so
there'll be a visual accompaniment to every song, there'll be a little video editing toy
that you can edit one of our live shows with and some interactive lyrics, things like that.
Pretty impressive stuff, you talk about interactive, let me interrupt, if you want to talk to Todd
you see the numbers on our screen.
You're also involved with CompuServe, how does that work?
People can communicate with you, get information about you and share ideas, right?
Well we have a forum called, it's the Interactive Music Forum and if you're already a CompuServe
member you just have to go iMusic on the forum and the issues that we deal with there
essentially have to do with new ways of experiencing music and other media as well and probably
the unique thing we did with the forum, we only came up about a month ago but since the
CD plus was delayed we loaded all the music up onto the forum so anybody who was especially
anxious to hear the album could download the entire album if they wanted.
Your dream is coming true isn't it with all the technologies that are surrounding music
and making it one of the medias to be contended with, is that what you always wanted?
Well it's not necessarily what I always wanted because when I first got into music albums
were what was happening, you know, let's all get together and make an album and be like
the Beatles and the thing I didn't realize then, having grown up with albums, is that
before that, before there were records, music was a much more plastic medium, much more
organic and subject to change and I'm trying to get music back to that in a way by taking
advantage of these online developments and I hope one day to be able to communicate directly
with the audience without having to go through all these extra steps that add time and expense
to the music making process so someday like I'll wake up in the morning and I'll have
an idea for a song and I'll work on it all day and I'll record it and then I'll upload
it and anyone who's connected to that space can hear the music the same day that I make
it and then tomorrow if I decide I want to change it, well they can hear the changes
as well so it becomes an organic process again, it changes, it evolves as my ideas about the music evolve.
Definitely interactive too because people get involved and communicate with you and
share their thoughts about it.
They can do that and I think there'll be a lot of collaboration going on through this
process as well, musicians and possibly people who aren't famous as musicians can get involved
in the process of composition.
We need to take some phone calls for this guy because there are many people out there.
Hi Michelle in Maple Heights, hi.
Hi, how are you?
Good, thanks.
I have a question for you, Tad, exactly how did you get started?
How did I get started?
Well, it was kind of a process of elimination when I graduated from high school, I didn't
do especially well in class and so I didn't have a college scholarship or anything and
so I decided I would either go back to school and learn computer programming or get in a
band and hopefully become successful.
Unfortunately, the first band I got in enabled me to support myself and I've been supporting
myself with music ever since.
It's been good since when computers did come out, when personal computers became available,
being a musician I had enough flexibility with my time that I could actually buy one
and learn how to program a computer so I got the best of both worlds.
Okay, alright, we have somebody else who wants to talk to you, Gerald, good afternoon to you.
Hi Tad, I'm just calling basically to congratulate you on a great career and basically you and
Peter Gabriel are about the only two guys that are doing anything that's hip with all
the CD-ROM and computer stuff and just looking forward to your show tonight.
Oh, terrific.
Boy, what a great transition he makes because that's what we want to talk about, you've
got a four-man band, Narnica stage [G] tonight, what are people going to get to hear?
Well, we're going to be doing most of the new record and plus a lot of old material,
some surprises, things that I haven't played in quite a number of years.
I sort of put this band together with it in mind that I would do a lot of guitar playing
so anyone who's missed my guitar playing, oh, must be one or two people.
More than that.
More than that, but I haven't played a lot of guitar in the past several tours and this
tour I make up for that in a big way.
Okay.
Tonight, a great venue, the Narnica stage down there in the flats.
[C] Thanks so much for being with us.
Thanks a lot.
Talented man, appreciate your time.
And the time right now is 1246, coming up on Good Day at Midday, if you don't pay off
all your [Ab] credit card bills on time, we have a report that will change your way.
Plus, welcome news for women going through the change of life [F] and use hormone replacement therapy.
That's all when we come back.
Stay with us [Cm] for more.
News Center 8's Good Day at Midday.
[G] Todd Rundgren will be here live to talk about his [D] remarkable career, his latest project,
and the reason he's in Cleveland.
Don't go away.
[C] [Gm] Hello, [F] it's me.
[Gm] [F]
[Eb] Great song, [G] Todd is cringing upon hearing it.
We'll explain why shortly.
Welcome back everybody to Deucerderade's Good Day at Midday.
During a 30 year musical career, Todd Rundgren has had many roles as a performer, producer
from the 60's as leader of Naz to producing albums for groups like Holland Oats and Meatloaf
and Cheap Trick and many others.
Quite a talented man.
But Todd Rundgren is probably [A] best known for hits like I Saw the Light and Hello, It's Me.
[G] Throughout his career he's also been known as an innovator and he is at it again and
he is with us this afternoon and we're so happy to have him.
Thanks Todd for [N] being here, we do appreciate it.
No problem.
A lot of people don't know that Hello, It's Me was your first song that you ever even
wrote and it went that far.
Yeah, it's very strange.
Unfortunate situation since people seem to think of you and that's kind of what now is
about 30 year old space and of course whoever it was that I wrote the song about I've completely forgotten.
People still want to hear it but I make no guarantees about what I play during the shows.
Yeah, well you still, you got a lot of hits, you got to start somewhere and you started
with a hit and that is something else.
Tell us about CD Plus.
Yeah, this is big, this is hot and this is brand new from this guy, The Individualist.
That'll be my next CD but it's not just a regular CD, it's a CD Plus which is a new
format that Philips and Sony came up with that allows you to put computer data in the
extra space on the disc and you can put it into a regular CD player and you don't have
to do anything special, it's just like a regular CD but if you put it into a computer
with a CD-ROM drive then the computer will recognize the extra data and you can have
graphical presentations, a lot of people have biographical stuff.
Me I tend to lean towards the more expressive area rather than the biographical area so
there'll be a visual accompaniment to every song, there'll be a little video editing toy
that you can edit one of our live shows with and some interactive lyrics, things like that.
Pretty impressive stuff, you talk about interactive, let me interrupt, if you want to talk to Todd
you see the numbers on our screen.
You're also involved with CompuServe, how does that work?
People can communicate with you, get information about you and share ideas, right?
Well we have a forum called, it's the Interactive Music Forum and if you're already a CompuServe
member you just have to go iMusic on the forum and the issues that we deal with there
essentially have to do with new ways of experiencing music and other media as well and probably
the unique thing we did with the forum, we only came up about a month ago but since the
CD plus was delayed we loaded all the music up onto the forum so anybody who was especially
anxious to hear the album could download the entire album if they wanted.
Your dream is coming true isn't it with all the technologies that are surrounding music
and making it one of the medias to be contended with, is that what you always wanted?
Well it's not necessarily what I always wanted because when I first got into music albums
were what was happening, you know, let's all get together and make an album and be like
the Beatles and the thing I didn't realize then, having grown up with albums, is that
before that, before there were records, music was a much more plastic medium, much more
organic and subject to change and I'm trying to get music back to that in a way by taking
advantage of these online developments and I hope one day to be able to communicate directly
with the audience without having to go through all these extra steps that add time and expense
to the music making process so someday like I'll wake up in the morning and I'll have
an idea for a song and I'll work on it all day and I'll record it and then I'll upload
it and anyone who's connected to that space can hear the music the same day that I make
it and then tomorrow if I decide I want to change it, well they can hear the changes
as well so it becomes an organic process again, it changes, it evolves as my ideas about the music evolve.
Definitely interactive too because people get involved and communicate with you and
share their thoughts about it.
They can do that and I think there'll be a lot of collaboration going on through this
process as well, musicians and possibly people who aren't famous as musicians can get involved
in the process of composition.
We need to take some phone calls for this guy because there are many people out there.
Hi Michelle in Maple Heights, hi.
Hi, how are you?
Good, thanks.
I have a question for you, Tad, exactly how did you get started?
How did I get started?
Well, it was kind of a process of elimination when I graduated from high school, I didn't
do especially well in class and so I didn't have a college scholarship or anything and
so I decided I would either go back to school and learn computer programming or get in a
band and hopefully become successful.
Unfortunately, the first band I got in enabled me to support myself and I've been supporting
myself with music ever since.
It's been good since when computers did come out, when personal computers became available,
being a musician I had enough flexibility with my time that I could actually buy one
and learn how to program a computer so I got the best of both worlds.
Okay, alright, we have somebody else who wants to talk to you, Gerald, good afternoon to you.
Hi Tad, I'm just calling basically to congratulate you on a great career and basically you and
Peter Gabriel are about the only two guys that are doing anything that's hip with all
the CD-ROM and computer stuff and just looking forward to your show tonight.
Oh, terrific.
Boy, what a great transition he makes because that's what we want to talk about, you've
got a four-man band, Narnica stage [G] tonight, what are people going to get to hear?
Well, we're going to be doing most of the new record and plus a lot of old material,
some surprises, things that I haven't played in quite a number of years.
I sort of put this band together with it in mind that I would do a lot of guitar playing
so anyone who's missed my guitar playing, oh, must be one or two people.
More than that.
More than that, but I haven't played a lot of guitar in the past several tours and this
tour I make up for that in a big way.
Okay.
Tonight, a great venue, the Narnica stage down there in the flats.
[C] Thanks so much for being with us.
Thanks a lot.
Talented man, appreciate your time.
And the time right now is 1246, coming up on Good Day at Midday, if you don't pay off
all your [Ab] credit card bills on time, we have a report that will change your way.
Plus, welcome news for women going through the change of life [F] and use hormone replacement therapy.
That's all when we come back.
Stay with us [Cm] for more.
News Center 8's Good Day at Midday.
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Right there, legendary rock and roll artist.
[G] Todd Rundgren will be here live to talk about his [D] remarkable career, his latest project,
and the reason he's in Cleveland.
Don't go away. _
[C] _ [Gm] _ Hello, [F] it's me. _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ Great song, [G] Todd is cringing upon hearing it.
We'll explain why shortly.
Welcome back everybody to Deucerderade's Good Day at Midday.
During a 30 year musical career, Todd Rundgren has had many roles as a performer, producer
from the 60's as leader of Naz to producing albums for groups like Holland Oats and Meatloaf
and Cheap Trick and many others.
Quite a talented man.
But Todd Rundgren is probably [A] best known for hits like I Saw the Light and Hello, It's Me.
[G] Throughout his career he's also been known as an innovator and he is at it again and
he is with us this afternoon and we're so happy to have him.
Thanks Todd for [N] being here, we do appreciate it.
No problem.
A lot of people don't know that Hello, It's Me was your first song that you ever even
wrote and it went that far.
Yeah, it's very strange. _ _
_ Unfortunate situation since people seem to think of you and that's kind of what now is
about 30 year old space and of course whoever it was that I wrote the song about I've completely forgotten. _ _ _
People still want to hear it but I make no guarantees about what I play during the shows.
Yeah, well you still, you got a lot of hits, you got to start somewhere and you started
with a hit and that is something else.
Tell us about CD Plus.
Yeah, this is big, this is hot and this is brand new from this guy, The Individualist.
_ That'll be my next CD but it's not just a regular CD, it's a CD Plus which is a new
format that Philips and Sony came up with that allows you to put computer data in the
extra space on the disc and you can put it into a regular CD player and you don't have
to do anything special, it's just like a regular CD but if you put it into a computer
with a CD-ROM drive then the computer will recognize the extra data and you can have
graphical presentations, a lot of people have biographical stuff.
_ Me I tend to lean towards the more expressive area rather than the biographical area so
there'll be a visual accompaniment to every song, there'll be a little video editing toy
that you can edit one of our live shows with and some interactive lyrics, things like that.
Pretty impressive stuff, you talk about interactive, let me interrupt, if you want to talk to Todd
you see the numbers on our screen.
You're also involved with CompuServe, how does that work?
People can communicate with you, get information about you and share ideas, right?
Well we have a forum called, it's the Interactive Music Forum and if you're already a CompuServe
member you just have to go iMusic on the forum and the issues that we deal with there _
essentially have to do with new ways of experiencing music and other media as well and probably
the unique thing we did with the forum, we only came up about a month ago but since the
CD plus was delayed we loaded all the music up onto the forum so anybody who was especially
anxious to hear the album could download the entire album if they wanted.
Your dream is coming true isn't it with all the technologies that are surrounding music
and making it one of the medias to be contended with, _ is that what you always wanted?
Well it's not necessarily what I always wanted because when I first got into music albums
were what was happening, you know, let's all get together and make an album and be like
the Beatles and the thing I didn't realize then, having grown up with albums, is that
before that, before there were records, music was a much more plastic medium, much more
organic and subject to change and I'm trying to get music back to that in a way by taking
advantage of these online _ developments and I hope one day to be able to communicate directly
with the audience without having to go through all these extra steps that add time and expense
to the music making process so someday like I'll wake up in the morning and I'll have
an idea for a song and I'll work on it all day and I'll record it and then I'll upload
it and anyone who's connected to that space can hear the music the same day that I make
it and then tomorrow if I decide I want to change it, well they can hear the changes
as well so it becomes an organic process again, it changes, it evolves as my ideas about the music evolve.
Definitely interactive too because people get involved and communicate with you and
share their thoughts about it.
They can do that and I think there'll be a lot of collaboration going on through this
process as well, musicians and possibly people who aren't famous as musicians can get involved
in the process of composition.
We need to take some phone calls for this guy because there are many people out there.
Hi Michelle in Maple Heights, hi.
Hi, how are you?
Good, thanks.
I have a question for you, Tad, exactly how did you get started?
How did I get started?
Well, it was kind of a process of elimination when I graduated from high school, I didn't
do especially well in class and so I didn't have a college scholarship or anything and
so I decided I would either go back to school and learn computer programming or get in a
band and hopefully become successful.
Unfortunately, the first band I got in enabled me to support myself and I've been supporting
myself with music ever since.
_ It's been good since when computers did come out, when personal computers became available,
being a musician I had enough flexibility with my time that I could actually buy one
and learn how to program a computer so I got the best of both worlds.
Okay, alright, we have somebody else who wants to talk to you, Gerald, good afternoon to you.
Hi Tad, I'm just calling basically to congratulate you on a great career and basically you and
Peter Gabriel are about the only two guys that are doing anything that's hip with all
the CD-ROM and computer stuff and just looking forward to your show tonight.
Oh, terrific.
Boy, what a great transition he makes because that's what we want to talk about, you've
got a four-man band, Narnica stage [G] tonight, what are people going to get to hear?
Well, we're going to be doing most of the new record and plus a lot of old material,
some surprises, things that I haven't played in quite a number of years.
I sort of put this band together with it in mind that I would do a lot of guitar playing
so anyone who's missed my guitar playing, oh, must be one or two people.
More than that.
More than that, but I haven't played a lot of guitar in the past several tours and this
tour I make up for that in a big way.
Okay.
Tonight, a great venue, the Narnica stage down there in the flats.
[C] Thanks so much for being with us.
Thanks a lot.
Talented man, appreciate your time.
And the time right now is 1246, coming up on Good Day at Midday, if you don't pay off
all your [Ab] credit card bills on time, we have a report that will change your way.
Plus, welcome news for women going through the change of life [F] and use hormone replacement therapy.
That's all when we come back.
Stay with us [Cm] for more.
News Center 8's Good Day at Midday. _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] Todd Rundgren will be here live to talk about his [D] remarkable career, his latest project,
and the reason he's in Cleveland.
Don't go away. _
[C] _ [Gm] _ Hello, [F] it's me. _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ Great song, [G] Todd is cringing upon hearing it.
We'll explain why shortly.
Welcome back everybody to Deucerderade's Good Day at Midday.
During a 30 year musical career, Todd Rundgren has had many roles as a performer, producer
from the 60's as leader of Naz to producing albums for groups like Holland Oats and Meatloaf
and Cheap Trick and many others.
Quite a talented man.
But Todd Rundgren is probably [A] best known for hits like I Saw the Light and Hello, It's Me.
[G] Throughout his career he's also been known as an innovator and he is at it again and
he is with us this afternoon and we're so happy to have him.
Thanks Todd for [N] being here, we do appreciate it.
No problem.
A lot of people don't know that Hello, It's Me was your first song that you ever even
wrote and it went that far.
Yeah, it's very strange. _ _
_ Unfortunate situation since people seem to think of you and that's kind of what now is
about 30 year old space and of course whoever it was that I wrote the song about I've completely forgotten. _ _ _
People still want to hear it but I make no guarantees about what I play during the shows.
Yeah, well you still, you got a lot of hits, you got to start somewhere and you started
with a hit and that is something else.
Tell us about CD Plus.
Yeah, this is big, this is hot and this is brand new from this guy, The Individualist.
_ That'll be my next CD but it's not just a regular CD, it's a CD Plus which is a new
format that Philips and Sony came up with that allows you to put computer data in the
extra space on the disc and you can put it into a regular CD player and you don't have
to do anything special, it's just like a regular CD but if you put it into a computer
with a CD-ROM drive then the computer will recognize the extra data and you can have
graphical presentations, a lot of people have biographical stuff.
_ Me I tend to lean towards the more expressive area rather than the biographical area so
there'll be a visual accompaniment to every song, there'll be a little video editing toy
that you can edit one of our live shows with and some interactive lyrics, things like that.
Pretty impressive stuff, you talk about interactive, let me interrupt, if you want to talk to Todd
you see the numbers on our screen.
You're also involved with CompuServe, how does that work?
People can communicate with you, get information about you and share ideas, right?
Well we have a forum called, it's the Interactive Music Forum and if you're already a CompuServe
member you just have to go iMusic on the forum and the issues that we deal with there _
essentially have to do with new ways of experiencing music and other media as well and probably
the unique thing we did with the forum, we only came up about a month ago but since the
CD plus was delayed we loaded all the music up onto the forum so anybody who was especially
anxious to hear the album could download the entire album if they wanted.
Your dream is coming true isn't it with all the technologies that are surrounding music
and making it one of the medias to be contended with, _ is that what you always wanted?
Well it's not necessarily what I always wanted because when I first got into music albums
were what was happening, you know, let's all get together and make an album and be like
the Beatles and the thing I didn't realize then, having grown up with albums, is that
before that, before there were records, music was a much more plastic medium, much more
organic and subject to change and I'm trying to get music back to that in a way by taking
advantage of these online _ developments and I hope one day to be able to communicate directly
with the audience without having to go through all these extra steps that add time and expense
to the music making process so someday like I'll wake up in the morning and I'll have
an idea for a song and I'll work on it all day and I'll record it and then I'll upload
it and anyone who's connected to that space can hear the music the same day that I make
it and then tomorrow if I decide I want to change it, well they can hear the changes
as well so it becomes an organic process again, it changes, it evolves as my ideas about the music evolve.
Definitely interactive too because people get involved and communicate with you and
share their thoughts about it.
They can do that and I think there'll be a lot of collaboration going on through this
process as well, musicians and possibly people who aren't famous as musicians can get involved
in the process of composition.
We need to take some phone calls for this guy because there are many people out there.
Hi Michelle in Maple Heights, hi.
Hi, how are you?
Good, thanks.
I have a question for you, Tad, exactly how did you get started?
How did I get started?
Well, it was kind of a process of elimination when I graduated from high school, I didn't
do especially well in class and so I didn't have a college scholarship or anything and
so I decided I would either go back to school and learn computer programming or get in a
band and hopefully become successful.
Unfortunately, the first band I got in enabled me to support myself and I've been supporting
myself with music ever since.
_ It's been good since when computers did come out, when personal computers became available,
being a musician I had enough flexibility with my time that I could actually buy one
and learn how to program a computer so I got the best of both worlds.
Okay, alright, we have somebody else who wants to talk to you, Gerald, good afternoon to you.
Hi Tad, I'm just calling basically to congratulate you on a great career and basically you and
Peter Gabriel are about the only two guys that are doing anything that's hip with all
the CD-ROM and computer stuff and just looking forward to your show tonight.
Oh, terrific.
Boy, what a great transition he makes because that's what we want to talk about, you've
got a four-man band, Narnica stage [G] tonight, what are people going to get to hear?
Well, we're going to be doing most of the new record and plus a lot of old material,
some surprises, things that I haven't played in quite a number of years.
I sort of put this band together with it in mind that I would do a lot of guitar playing
so anyone who's missed my guitar playing, oh, must be one or two people.
More than that.
More than that, but I haven't played a lot of guitar in the past several tours and this
tour I make up for that in a big way.
Okay.
Tonight, a great venue, the Narnica stage down there in the flats.
[C] Thanks so much for being with us.
Thanks a lot.
Talented man, appreciate your time.
And the time right now is 1246, coming up on Good Day at Midday, if you don't pay off
all your [Ab] credit card bills on time, we have a report that will change your way.
Plus, welcome news for women going through the change of life [F] and use hormone replacement therapy.
That's all when we come back.
Stay with us [Cm] for more.
News Center 8's Good Day at Midday. _ _ _ _ _ _